–Engage

“Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.” - Steve Jobs

Slides from iaSummit 06 Presentations

From the IxDA Symposium (just my slides) Introduction: Connecting IxD and IA (pdf; 1.4mb) Now Web Pt. 1: Richer (pdf; 2.2mb) From the IA Summit Wireframing Survey - Using Flash (pdf; 69kb) Web 2.0 & AJAX for IAs (PowerPoint Slideshow; 7.5mb)

“Design Vision” – A conversation by 4 designers

Design Vision The beginning of 2006 a group of 4 pretty awesome designers got together and published a virtual conversation on their mutual blogs. Luke Wroblewski, Jim Leftwitch, Dirk Knemeyer, and Bob Baxley (in reverse alphabetical order, b/c Luke is almost always mentioned last otherwise) represent very different backgrounds sometimes within ...

IxD Symposium, and the IA Summit

Ok, so now that i pushed out my final material to be printed for the Summit, I'm really excited about all aspects of it. Here are the various places where I am actively participating. the IxD Symposium by IxDA - This full day pre-conference to the Summit on March 23rd, is ...

Why It’s Not Damning to Define the Thing

This was originally published by ACM Interactions magazine in their May-June, 2013 Edition as part of their Confessions column. I re-print it here with their permission as columns like these are not made available to the public as a whole. Thank you ACM for allowing me to do this. Why It's ...

Coordination vs. Collaboration

Recently I've been made aware of different ways of thinking about "collaboration". It kinda took me for surprise be specially given the geo-social contexts, but there is no ignoring it. What I learned as two completely different activities some use the same word for or more correctly use the term ...

Report from Up to All Of Us

I'm currently on a plane heading back home after a short weekend with a group of mostly instructional designers who are at a new type of unconference (something I've never experienced before). It felt more like a retreat than a conference due to the setting and the style of interaction ...
December 12th 2012
Tags: education, general thoughts One Comment

As Corona says, “Change your Latitude [Longitude]” – Travel is awesome.

Today I sparked a bit of a conversation after I tweeted: Everyone who is creative should move every 5-10 years; to minimally find a way to live somewhere else for a yr (sabbatical). http://twitter.com/daveixd/status/278919010391826432 Why do I put such importance on travel? What value does it give a creative person? And to the ...

Today Johnny Holland says Goodbye and I am sad & grateful

Today Johnny Holland, the amazing Interaction Design online magazine says goodbye. This news makes me feel both sad and grateful. Johnny Holland (JH) has been a rare place that allowed me to include my voice where other magazines rejected the types of topics I was interested in discussing: esoteric, foundational, semantic, ...

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